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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
insist .
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Examples
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United can do us a favour by clinching the title insists West Brom boss Mowbray
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United can do us a favour by clinching the title insists West Brom boss Mowbray
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United can do us a favour by clinching the title insists West Brom boss Mowbray
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I honestly do not understand why Sarah Palin insists that she and her family be treated differently from any other public figure.
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A polite and cheerful man with a buzz cut, Mr. Panarin insists he does not dislike Americans.
Matthew Yglesias » By Request: The Case for Parliamentarism 2009
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Sorkin insists it's much more universal and timeless than that, because it's about "an outsider wanting to belong".
How evil is Facebook? Hadley Freeman 2010
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He 's engaged in a cyber-feud with his local town supervisor, who Mr. Redlich insists is the instigator, saying: I think he' s borderline obsessed with me.
Candidates Crowd Stage Erica Orden 2010
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He says he's trying to champion the cause of accuracy in online reporting in a lawsuit against Deadspin that he insists is anything but frivolous.
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Listening between the lines, one senses he faces an uphill battle to convince others of his long-term view, which he insists is "not hopelessly pessimistic."
Technology = Salvation Holman W. Jenkins Jr. 2010
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And that, Updike insists, is where the conflict that fuels all narrative finds its origins, in the opposing magnetic forces that work on the mind and the body.
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